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The Bentonville Planning Commission held a technical review session at 4:30 PM followed by the regular meeting at 5:00 PM on April 21, 2026. The commission considered several land development applications, including lot splits, a large-scale development, an alley width and pavement waiver, and two rezoning requests. All items were approved, with the rezoning of the Esslinger property generating notable discussion about zoning transitions and building heights.
All right, I see it's 4 30, so I'm gonna go ahead and call to order the meeting of the Venville Planning Commission technical review for April the 21st. And we will begin with uh any changes to the minutes. May have any changes? Modifications. Okay, let's move on to the consent agenda. So we have those three items. Um any of those items that there were the commissioner would like to have removed from the commit consent agenda or have any questions about for tech with you. The bright box condos, the utilities on G Street would be underground. There's a little bit of overhead there right now, but I'm assuming that's going underground, what I can tell. All right. That's right. Okay. All right. Thank you, John. Is that all you had, Danny? Yeah. So all three of those items will stay on the consent agenda. We'll move on to new business. The first is the waiver uh fourth street alley waiver. Um so this is on the south side of fourth between B and C Street. Uh it came to us as a single family uh building permit. And the alley sits today as a 12-footer. And uh engineering staff asked for a 16-foot paved, 20-foot easement. Uh 20-foot, the extraway, 16 feet of pavement. Okay, the extra is what has to come out of their property. There's a there was a comment in there that the uh think a right-of-way permit, they marked up how it could work, but you don't have a copy of whatever markup was from the engineering. Uh looks to me like it's on there too, but yeah. We've got the some of this. Um, so we did submit a right-of-way permit. Let me let me just back up a little bit. Um, in the staff report, I think it mentions uh that there was a lot split here, and you may be able to see yeah, the two parcels there. Um, you know, having to dedicate that additional eight feet on top of the five foot setbacks uh for that alley side, whether in the new code or the old old old code, it's it just doesn't work. It's not big enough to build a house there. Um these are these are narrow lots, as I'm I'm sure you can see. Um we did not I at least I haven't seen any kind of markup from the engineering department on how it could work. Um the comments that we got were just um uh that we yeah, we needed some kind of waiver uh uh to reduce the what they're requiring and in your street specifications of 20 foot right-of-way width alley um to this existing 12-foot alley. We the the right-of-way is there, we'd like to just utilize that for our two lots to provide rear rear loading to those two lots and not have to have a driveway and a front door. Um right there uh on the front edge. And um, I think he can get one one house built, but that it just ruins the other lot. We it was not wide enough building.